The Deliverance of Judah

¹The oracle of the word of the Lord against Israel.[#Zec 9:1; Mal 1:1]

Thus says the Lord , the One who stretches out the heavens and establishes the earth and forms the spirit of man within him:

²I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling before all the surrounding nations. And when there is a siege against Judah, it is also against Jerusalem.[#Ps 75:8; Zec 14:14]

³And it will be on that day that I will set Jerusalem as a weighty stone to all the peoples. All who carry it will surely gash themselves, and all the nations of the land will be gathered against it.[#Da 2:34–35; #Mt 21:44]

⁴On that day I will strike every horse with confusion and its rider with madness, but for the house of Judah I will keep My eyes open although I will strike with blindness every horse of the peoples.[#Dt 28:28]

⁵Then the clans of Judah will say in their hearts, “There is strength for us with those residing in Jerusalem by the Lord of Hosts, their God.”

⁶On that day I will set Judah like a fiery pot among wood and as a flaming torch among cut grain. And they will devour to the right and left all the surrounding peoples, while Jerusalem will still reside in her place, the place of Jerusalem.[#Ob 18]

⁷The Lord will deliver the tents of Judah as before, so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of those dwelling in Jerusalem will not eclipse Judah.

⁸On that day the Lord will defend those residing in Jerusalem; and even the one who stumbles among them will be as David on that day. And the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the Lord going out before them.

⁹On that day I will seek to destroy all the nations who come out against Jerusalem.

Mourning for Him Whom They Have Pierced

¹⁰And I will pour out on the house of David and over those dwelling in Jerusalem a spirit of favor and supplication so that they look to Me, whom they have pierced through. And they will mourn over him as one mourns for an only child and weep bitterly over him as a firstborn.[#Rev 1:7; #Jer 6:26]

¹¹On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as that of Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.[#2Ki 23:29; 2Ch 35:24]

¹²The land will mourn with each family by itself: the family of the house of David by themselves, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by themselves, and their wives by themselves;[#2Sa 5:14; Lk 3:31]

¹³the family of the house of Levi by themselves, and their wives by themselves; the family of Shimei by themselves, and their wives also by themselves;[#Nu 3:17–18]

¹⁴and all the families that remain, each by itself and their wives by themselves.